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Minnesota Senator Tina Smith bringing the thunder 🔥

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Guardian article on NIH www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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From Kit Yates at the University of Bath. UK and other non-US scientists must act to support our US colleagues: Silence will not shield scientists from the consequences of an increasingly hostile political landscape. kityates.substack.com/p/uk-and-oth...

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Information was shared illegally. A career employee at the Social Security Administration provided unauthorized access to data to Elon Musk’s staffers. This employee, Leland Dudek, a data analyst, was recently promoted to acting commissioner by Trump.

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Really awful.

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Gift link. A small unelected, secretive crew now has free access to sensitive private data of everyone. And Musk is already publicly targeting family members of judges who rule against the administration. If this isn’t ringing alarm bells, I don’t know what would. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

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“No President — Republican or Democrat — can withhold Federal funding authorized and appropriated by Congress and paid for by Maine taxpayers in an attempt to coerce someone into compliance with his will. It is a violation of our Constitution…” www.pressherald.com/2025/02/21/r...

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you love to see it www.pressherald.com/2025/02/21/r...

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Graduate admissions being put on hold because of the chaos...

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Another school curtails admissions, even offers already made. This is on #Trump, #Musk and #Vought. Time to fight back. www.thedp.com/article/2025...

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NYC sued the Trump administration on Friday for clawing back $80.5M of grants intended to cover part of the city's cost of housing migrants.

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If someone wanted to destroy the United States from within, would they do anything differently than what Trump is doing right now?

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JUST IN: “A federal judge in Maryland on Friday blocked the Trump administration from terminating federal grants and contracts related to DEI as called for in executive orders signed by President Donald Trump.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

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The National Science Foundation fired all its experts. The National Science Foundation. Fired. All of its. Experts. And they weren't even told to! The leadership worked toward the Fuhrer and went beyond the cuts demanded of them in anticipation of many, many more firings—up to half its staff.

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A temporary challenge by tumor cells can lead to a permanent partial-impairment of memory CD8 T cell function https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.17.638652v1

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More, please.

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"one of the officials who was locked out of his work accounts was Acting Chief of Defense Nuclear Safety James Todd, a senior executive official and the top authority for all nuclear-safety matters in the" Department of Energy www.thebulwark.com/p/inside-dog...

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Some updates: 1. A federal judge extended a restraining order blocking the National Institutes of Health from cutting research funds until she rules on a permanent injunction. 2. The IRS will not allow a member of Elon Musk’s team to access individual tax returns.

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Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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“HELLO FREE PRESS WATCH ME EXTORT THIS GOVERNOR RIGHT NOW”

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Here are some data documenting the funding "pause" pulled from NIH Reporter. Current results (FY25) (Red) are compared with results from FY21 (first year of Biden Administration) and FY24. Note that data from Reporter lag behind release of NoAs by ~1 week. I will be tracking this going forward.

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BREAKING via WSJ “The acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Caleb Vitello, was removed from his post, administration officials and other people familiar with the matter said, amid frustration in the Trump administration that deportations haven’t accelerated faster.”

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In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine had no signs of relapse after three years. Dr. Vinod Balachandran from @mskcancercenter.bsky.social joins us to discuss the results and what they could mean for cancer treatment.

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Among those Trump and Musk fired at the FAA: - Lawyers who help keep drunk or reckless pilots out of the skies - Air traffic control support staff - Employees who track potential new flying hazards like cranes - Staffers who medically clear pilots to fly www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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The CIA has moved to dismiss an unspecified number of officers who were working on recruiting and diversity issues, according to former officials, in what would be one of the largest mass firings in the agency’s history.

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Tump has done nothing that would not be on a Russian wish list: -Ukraine invaded Russia. Support Putin. -A de facto Russian agent head of Intelligence. -Kills USAID, the largest competitor against Russia for foreign influence -A drunk cutting defense budget. That's a few. It's a long list.

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“The agency didn’t have to fire its experts but decided to in the interest of fairness…The removal of experts was completely at the agency’s discretion. Because if we’re asked to remove probationers, then we also need to remove at-will employees,”…” www.aei.org/economics/wh...

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The mission and values of the University of California have not changed. You matter. Your work is important. Together we will continue to make a difference in our state, our country and our world. #FiatLux ✨ www.youtube.com/watch?v=EweZ... Federal updates: bit.ly/4b7x9Db

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The breadth and scope of cowardice amongst our scientific leadership is staggering.

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"We can imagine a day when awards for women will no longer be necessary; that day will come when women are represented fairly among prizewinners. For now, we must continue to offer opportunities for outstanding female researchers to get the credit they deserve." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget. https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4

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The City of Boston is leading 40+ mayors, cities, and counties in an amicus brief against the Trump Administration's drastic and illegal cuts to federal research funding—cuts that will lead to immediate job losses nationwide.

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For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13. For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26. Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency. It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.

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NASEM reports represent YEARS of intensive work by leaders in their respective fields. Their publication of Unequal Treatment was, of course, foundational to our understanding of health disparities in this country.

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The Trump admin has told organizations that provide federally funded legal representation to unaccompanied migrant children to halt the service. "The administration's decision to suspend this program undermines due process." www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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The House is proposing massive tax cuts for the wealthy, funded by devastating Medicaid cuts. Meanwhile the Senate is planning two separate bills to do the same thing. Margarida Jorge at Health Care for America Now explains. Watch the full #CareTalk ep: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyNl...

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Janno Lieber, the head of the MTA, had won a hard fought battle to switch on congestion pricing - a plan not only to cut traffic, but to pay for $15B in badly needed transit upgrades. In Trump, he faces his biggest obstacle yet. Free link here www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/n...

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Mass layoffs of IRS agents who catch tax evaders. Once more, Elon Musk's very sincere crusade to cut "waste and fraud" out of the federal government just so happens to weaken government power over billionaires like him. What an incredible string of coincidences we've had here.

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Republican Susan Collins says she's voting against Kash Patel's nomination to be Trump's FBI Director: "Mr. Patel's recent political profile undermines his ability to serve in the apolitical role of Director of the FBI."

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Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."

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A two-and-a-half-year-old girl shows no signs of a rare genetic disorder, after becoming the first person to be treated for the motor-neuron condition while in the womb. https://go.nature.com/41a7Zzj

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This is like Senators asking for Trump to release funding for their pet projects. When you campaigned for a personalist presidency you have turned yourself into a beggar seeking the King’s favor rather than a citizen who can be confident of equal treatment for all.

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This is going right into my slides on career advice for aspiring scientists. Thanks!

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Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

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